This 38th volume of the International Journal Sustainable Energy Planning and Management presents some newest work within in energy planning, systems analyses district heating area. Articles focus on multi objective optimisarion for a community Alps, carbon neutrality Estonia, prospects heat pumps combined with thermal storage maximising self-consumpotion from photovoltaic field methods assessi...

Energy is one of the most important aspects urban development and technological advancements. As its production consumption are connected to several environmental, social, economic issues covering all three sustainability pillars, strategic targeted energy planning vital smooth transition towards a more efficient greener society. In accordance with specific priorities every state, sustainable s...

The complexity of planning requirements and aims for energy-efficient buildings has significantly risen, however the buildings are mostly planned with traditional planning methods based on sequential planning model. The main hypothesis states that successful energy-efficient and even -producing buildings can be realized only through more integrated, interdisciplinary and life-cycle oriented des...

Distributed generation (DG) has been widely used in distribution network to reduce the energy losses, improve voltage profile and system reliability, etc.  The location and capacity of DG units can influence on probability of protection mal-operation in distribution networks. In this paper, a novel model for DG planning is proposed to find the optimum DG location and sizing in radial distr...

Energy planning increasingly revolves around the use of tools for energy system modelling and analysis with a view to generating scenarios show implications possibilities decision makers. Municipalities engage in transition renewable systems through formulation strategies goals at local level despite often lacking appropriate resources conduct needed complex analyses. Tools analyses have tradit...

During the past few years, the scope and nature of resource planning at electric utilities has changed dramatically. The scope ofplanning has expanded to consider energy efficiency and load management programmes as resources, the en vironmental costs of electricity production, and a variety of resource-selection criteria beyond elec tricity price. The nature of planning has ex panded to include...